Pandemic-era NIH grants (FY2019-2024) covering coronavirus, gain-of-function research, mRNA vaccines, biosafety, and related funding flows. Metadata + abstracts from NIH RePORTER.
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Olu Olofinboba · MOAI TECHNOLOGIES, LLC · 2024 · $808,635 — Project Summary/Abstract Alzheimer’s disease (AD) affects more than six million Americans currently and is projected to affect 14 million at a cost of $1.2 trillion in 2050. Despite its tremendous impacts and the limited influence of pharmacological therapies, attention has been brought to non-pharm…
Jeremy David Keenan · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · 2024 · $1,448,874 — PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT The World Health Organization estimates that 80% of blindness worldwide is avoidable. However, in resource-limited settings progressive eye diseases such as glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy (DR), and age-related macular degeneration (AMD) often go undiagnosed until it is too …
Elizabeth Gross Cohn · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · 2024 · $1,025,313 — ABSTRACT: Despite medical advances in treating chronic diseases and epidemiological findings identifying risk factors for chronic diseases, there remain major persistent health disparities driven by the Social Determinants of Health (SDoH). We have come together to address these disparities through …
Jeffery Micheal Tharp · INDIANA UNIVERSITY INDIANAPOLIS · 2024 · $44,016 — PROJECT SUMMARY Bicyclic peptides are conformationally constrained peptides comprised of two macrocyclic rings. Owing to their conformational rigidity, bicyclic peptides are highly resistant to proteolysis, and can bind to protein targets with antibody-like affinity and selectivity. As a result, the…
Jason George · TEXAS ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION · 2024 · $358,063 — PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Despite recent experimental advances in high-dimensional time-course data generation and accompanying inferential statistical approaches, we still lack the ability to reliably estimate the time-dynamical adaptation mechanisms that biological systems utilize to navigate varyi…
DOUGLAS K OWENS · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · 2024 · $759,543 — risis of substance use in the US. In 2021, more than 107,000 overdose deaths occurred, setting yet another grim record. The substance use epidemic continues to threaten hard-fought gains in prevention and control of HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV) and related diseases. Identifying the best approach …
JAMES G. MURPHY · UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS · 2024 · $347,932 — Brief alcohol interventions (BAI) are among the most cost-effective preventive care measures available and the evaluation of these interventions with high-risk and difficult-to-reach populations is an NIAAA priority. Although emerging adults (EAs) who attend college often have access to brief alcoho…
Ishani Ganguli · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · 2024 · $168,480 — Project Summary/Abstract This K23 award will establish Ishani Ganguli MD, MPH as a clinician-investigator focused on how care delivery and payment innovation can advance high-value outpatient care and better outcomes for older adults. Dr. Ganguli is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and primary car…
Lindsey Major Knowles · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · 2024 · $161,568 — Project Summary/Abstract: Lindsey Knowles, PhD is a psychologist and postdoctoral fellow in the University of Washington (UW) and VA Puget Sound Health Care System (VAPSHCS) Seattle Collaborative Fellowship in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Rehabilitation Research. She is fully committed to becoming an ind…
Nadia Micali · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · 2024 · $587,548 — PROJECT SUMMARY Eating disorders (ED) and non-eating disorders internalizing-spectrum disorders (nonED-INT; e.g., major depressive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, social phobia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder) have major public health importance due to their pre…
EMILIO ALBERTO PARRADO · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · 2024 · $510,668 — OVERALL: PROJECT SUMMARY The goal under a new P2C award is for the Population Studies Center (PSC) at the U. of Pennsylvania to remain a national and world leader in research on the dynamic structure, organization, and health and well- being of human populations. Established in 1962, the PSC is char…
Chris G Dulla · TUFTS UNIVERSITY BOSTON · 2024 · $467,875 — PROJECT SUMMARY Tuberculosis is a global disease affecting millions of people in primarily developing regions of the world. Central nervous system tuberculosis (CNS-TB) is the most severe extra pulmonary form of the disease, which, despite aggressive therapeutic intervention, can have a fatality rat…
Lauren M Aleksunes · RUTGERS BIOMEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES · 2024 · $106,372 — PROJECT SUMMARY Creating a pathway for trainees to enter the clinical and translational science (CTS) workforce, including students from backgrounds often underrepresented in STEM and CTS, requires early engagement while in training. Addressing the needs of trainees at the forefront of their CTS edu…
GWENAEL LAYEC · UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA OMAHA · 2024 · $665,766 — Post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC) affects 5 out of 10 patients hospitalized for the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and ~11% of all adults infected by SARS-CoV-2, which makes this condition a growing public health concern. It is associated with important disabilities, cognitive …
JEREMY M. BOSS · EMORY UNIVERSITY · 2024 · $541,941 — Humoral immunity provides protection from pathogenic viral, bacterial, and parasitic infections and is mediated by antibodies that are produced following the differentiation of B cells into antibody secreting cells (ASC). Both T cell independent and dependent processes contribute to the formation of…
Eduard Chekmenev · WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY · 2024 · $231,207 — PROJECT SUMMARY (30-line limit) Deadly lung diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma, lung injury, constrictive bronchiolitis, and pulmonary fibrosis affect >300 million people worldwide and cause ~3 million annual deaths. Moreover, the COVID-19 pandemic and the lingering effec…
Rushika Perera · COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY · 2024 · $7,500 — Program Summary / Abstract The Rocky Mountain Virology Association (RMVA) will hold its 24th annual meeting September 27th-29th, 2024. The meeting brings together regional and national investigators in virology and prion biology for a 3-day retreat- style conference with extensive interaction and co…
SANCY ANN LEACHMAN · OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY · 2024 · $17,560 — PROJECT SUMMARY The Montagna Symposium on the Biology of Skin has gathered nearly annually for 70 years with the goal of bringing together leading scientists and clinical investigators in a uniquely designed conference to drive forward the field of skin biology. Through cutting edge presentations an…
Ewa Karina Czyz · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · 2024 · $169,230 — PROJECT SUMMARY The increasing rates of suicide among adolescents is an urgent public health concern. In parallel, acute services due to suicide risk, including psychiatric hospitalizations, have been on the rise, with discharged adolescents remaining at elevated risk for recurrent suicidal crises. …
Teresa Janevic · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · 2024 · $642,775 — PROJECT SUMMARY Recent policy debates to extend Medicaid postpartum are fueled by the US maternal health crisis: The US maternal mortality rate is the highest among high-income countries and includes stark racial disparities. Black women have a pregnancy-related mortality rate more than 3X higher th…